Dissertation Hours

Specialty areas are based upon four to five specific courses or seminars that provide students with a focus within Applied Developmental Sciences and Special Education. These courses are subject to revision, including additions and edits, as faculty and market demands change. An advisor may suggest additional courses based on student’s career goals.

Applied Developmental Sciences (ADS)

ADS Inclusive Early Childhood Development

EDUC 861

Seminar in Special Education: Translational Research

3 hrs

EDUC 881

Advanced Seminar in Human Development:
Pro-Seminar in Early Childhood

3 hrs

EDUC 882

Advanced Seminar in Cognition and Learning:
Theory and Practice in Teaching Struggling Readers and Writers

3 hrs

SPHS 897

Autism Research Seminar

3 hrs

SPHS 802

Seminar in Prelinguistic and Early Linguistic Communication Behavior
OR

3 hrs

SPHS 854

Seminar in Child Language

ADS Middle Childhood/Adolescence

EDUC 881

Advanced Seminar in Human Development:
Social-Emotional Development of Adolescents

3 hrs

EDUC 960

Advanced Seminar in ADSSE:
School Transitions & Development

3 hrs

EDUC 961

Advanced Seminar in ADSSE:
Schools as Contexts for Development

3 hrs

EDUC 915

Introduction to Learning Sciences

3 hrs

SOWO 940

Development of Social Intervention Models

3 hrs

PYSCH 781

Pro-seminar in Developmental Sciences

3 hrs

Special Education (SPED)

SPED School Age

EDUC 809

Problems and Issues in Special Education

3 hrs

EDUC 861

Seminar in Special Education:
Translational Interdisciplinary Research

3 hrs

EDUC 861

Seminar in Special Education:
Learning & Behavioral Disorders

3 hrs

EDUC 881

Advanced Seminar in Human Development:
School Transitions

3 hrs

EDUC 882

Advanced Seminar in Cognition and Learning:
Theory and Practice in Teaching Struggling Readers and Writers

3 hrs

SPED Autism

EDUC 809

Problems and Issues in Special Education

3 hrs

EDUC 861

Seminar in Special Education:
Translational Interdisciplinary Research

3 hrs

SPHS 897

Autism Research Seminar

3 hrs

SPHS 802

Seminar in Prelinguistic and Early Linguistic Communications Behavior OR